LevelDB outperforms others on a cheap phone (Microsoft ESE and SQLite)
Windows Runtime Component for LevelDB. This is an unofficial port of LevelDB for Windows 10 Universal Platform (UWP) - Performance And Comparison · maxpert/LevelDBWinRT Wiki
LevelDB outperforms others on a cheap phone (Microsoft ESE and SQLite) launched on March 25, 2016 with 57 votes, #1,510 of 4,409 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 10 years on.
In plain words
LevelDB WinRT is an unofficial Windows Runtime component that ports Google's LevelDB database to Windows 10 Universal Platform applications. It provides key-value storage optimized for performance on resource-constrained devices. The component is designed for developers building UWP apps who need fast local data storage and want an alternative to SQLite or Microsoft ESE. Performance benchmarks demonstrate its speed advantage in typical app scenarios.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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This article in no way suggests you to dump SQLite or any other database and start using LevelDB. The sole intent of this article is to compare other production ready databases to LevelDB UWP port. Following assumptions (covers 90% of the apps) were taken while benchmarks were being performed: LevelDB is blazing fast compared to any other storage solutions available on UWP. It's not just a claim; here is a sample application try it yourself. I compared it with almost all famous free solutions out there, list includes: For keeping data as close to real as possible the project downloads an RSS feed. These feed entries are then selected at random, with unique key and then inserted. Hence the…from github.com
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